Our voting system is designed to constantly make people feel as if they only have two choices and it's a matter of choosing the lesser evil. In reality, we have more than two political parties and their candidates to choose from.

We lock ourselves into only two choices, and therefore various false dilemmas, because the wisdom is that a vote for a third party candidate is really a vote for one of the candidates of the major two political parties.

I totally meant yes! And only in just about every election that I can remember. It never fails that the guy that I believe would most likely do the job right rarely ever makes it to the final round of the election. The guy who usually actually seems to have the best interest of the people and for the actual best interests of the nation in it's relationships with other nations is also usually the guy who won't be bought off by foreign, corporate and banker lobbyists. As a result that guy gets marginalized and/or is crucified in the media for whatever they can dig up or fabricte to pin on him. I really think the two party system that we are locked into in this country leaves a huge number of US citizens out in the cold and basicly unrepresented. They ask why it is that here only a measly 30% of eligible voters show up to vote. While in other nations voter turn out numbers average 75% and above. The reason is simple. Neither of these two people (and I use the word loosely) speak for even half of us! Other nations aren't bound by only choosing from one of two elitist, morally deficient, paid for and bought off show ponies being led around by their pocketbooks. They can organize and promote any number of political parties. If one party fails to keep it's promises and turns it's bac...

I totally meant yes! And only in just about every election that I can remember. It never fails that the guy that I believe would most likely do the job right rarely ever makes it to the final round of the election. The guy who usually actually seems to have the best interest of the people and for the actual best interests of the nation in it's relationships with other nations is also usually the guy who won't be bought off by foreign, corporate and banker lobbyists. As a result that guy gets marginalized and/or is crucified in the media for whatever they can dig up or fabricte to pin on him. I really think the two party system that we are locked into in this country leaves a huge number of US citizens out in the cold and basicly unrepresented. They ask why it is that here only a measly 30% of eligible voters show up to vote. While in other nations voter turn out numbers average 75% and above. The reason is simple. Neither of these two people (and I use the word loosely) speak for even half of us! Other nations aren't bound by only choosing from one of two elitist, morally deficient, paid for and bought off show ponies being led around by their pocketbooks. They can organize and promote any number of political parties. If one party fails to keep it's promises and turns it's back on the people, they replace it with one that does. Of course we are told that we are free to develop alternative parties in this country. But honestly, That's a load of crap. Only the Democratic and Republican parties are actually recognised and supported by our government. Both politicly and financially. Other parties, such as the Green Party for instance, recieves none of the respect or support tghat is given to even the most despised of the Dem. or Repub. camps. So yes, I absolutely feel like I have no real choice in this election. Obama may be a nice guy (he may not. depends on who you ask) but I really don't think he knows what he's doing. Whenever he isn't bending over backwards to get a pat on the heat from his bosses, that is. Romney on the other hand is freakin' rich man's dream and a poor man's nighgtmare. And guess which one there are more of here in the good ol USofA? Neither of them represent me. Here I am trying to maintain some semblance of balance in my little part of the world and these guys are so far off on either extreeme from my best interests that you'd have to catch a plane and two trains just to get sight of where either one of them's head is at.